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The Hutton Creek bore, Queensland

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Abstract

Note that this record includes Record 1945/015 by the same author. In the search for oil in Queensland, Drillers Limited,
a subsidiary of Oil Search Limited, Sydney, put down a deep bore at Hutton Creek near Injune, in the parish of Simmie, county
of Westgrove and 60 miles north of Roma. Drilling operations, which began in 1935 and ceased in 1938 when the depth of the
bore was 4,688 feet, were carried out with a Commonwealth Government plant. The major part of the drilling was done by the
percussion method, but cores were taken at various depths down to 4,678 feet. No samples were received for microscopic examination
until the bore had reached the depth of 650 feet, but from this depth to the bottom of the bore-hole, 638 samples of cuttings
and cores were examined. Core samples were taken at more frequent intervals towards the bottom of the bore-hole than higher
up. The results of the study of the cores and cuttings from the bore-holes are described in this report.